It’s a fine book. I hated it because it’s like a smack in the teeth. Arkady Babchenko’s prose is raw and uncut and his subject matter is one of the most terrible wars in the world – and without a ...

Elizaveta Galkina is a graphics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, based in New York. Before joining the Journal, she worked for the New England Conservatory of Music and Newsweek. Elizaveta is ...